As the waters closed over the 41 foot Tartan sailboat Spiritus, her captain closed his eyes, holding back tears. The captain of the freighter that had just rescued him from his doomed vessel stood with him, silent, hand on his shoulder, a fellow seaman feeling the gut wrenching pain of the loss.
This isn’t the beginning of some lurid novel. This happened a few days ago off Port Canaveral. The Palm Beach police ordered a...
Doing everything on the cheap can mean you run into many problems. Our 26ft. Dutch wooden boat ‘Blauwe Slenk’. I’d dropped her mast in Berton’s marina. To sort out her crosstrees and have a scan at everything else.
This after a winter in Lymington on the harbour piles. Then we were taking her back to our mooring at Marchwood.
Its ort to have been simple process having a Tabernacle mast, but I’d done away with her...
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The Boat Geeks #44 - "Sailor Barry" Collins, popular YouTuber and Sail Cargo entrepreneur.
Barry has long been harboring...
The Seven Seas Cruising Association (SSCA) in partnership with Lorraine’s Café Black Point Exumas will once again host the 4th Annual Bahamas Cruisers Gathering...
Chicago’s finally joining the grown-up cities with an in-water boat show. Took long enough.
June 12–14, 2026, Burnham Harbor becomes a floating village of fiberglass,...
Turning Limited Onboard Ingredients into Real Food
We sailed from Roatán to Placencia, Belize aboard SV Dutch Love, arriving a few days before Christmas. Guests...
Kathy and Ralph, experienced adventurers, spent their retirement sailing aboard Simplicity, spending summers in New England and embracing the warmth of Caribbean winters. Their final voyage with the Salty Dawg Sailing Association crew took an unthinkable turn as Simplicity was found abandoned in St. Vincent, bearing chilling evidence of a violent struggle.
My dear friend Tobey is in a bad way. He is someone who spent his life racing and riding from Canada to Bonneville living life to the greatest glory of freedom and service to others...
Cape Taineron is supposedly where Hades keeps the front door unlocked, and by the time we got there, I was inclined to believe it. The wind went from sporty to stupid in a hurry. Twenty knots, then twenty-five, then...
As the waters closed over the 41 foot Tartan sailboat Spiritus, her captain closed his eyes, holding back tears. The captain of the freighter that had just rescued him from his doomed vessel stood with him, silent, hand on...
This work proves Schroedinger’s Cat Theory:
A cat is imagined as being enclosed in a box with a radioactive source and a poison that will be released when the source (unpredictably) emits radiation, the cat being considered (per quantum mechanics)...